On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 3:46 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 03:23:15AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 12:03:48 -0400 > > From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> > > Message-ID: <YYAP5PynR6Us/FV/@wooledge.org> > > > > | > bash: : command not found > > | > bash: : command not found > > | > > | Because this is you, I can't be sure whether you are correctly > pasting > > | the output from your terminal into email, > > > > Actually, because it is him, it is more likely that he has "cat" aliased > > to ' ' somehow, since he loves aliases so much. > > Not a bad guess, but I can't reproduce it that way: > > unicorn:~$ bash > unicorn:~$ alias cat=' ' > unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > unicorn:~$ alias cat='' > unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null > bash: /dev/null: Permission denied > > Then I tried with a non-breaking space, and that's closer, but.... > > unicorn:~$ alias cat=' ' > unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null > bash: : command not found > > The "space nbsp space" in that result is interesting, but I don't think > that's what he's doing, even accounting for the possiblity that he > typed one space where the terminal shows three. > I only get a non-breaking space and a space between the colons rather than three space characters. >
